Nemom Assembly constituency
| Nemom | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 135 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Established | 1957 - present |
| Total electors | 2,04,240 (2021) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | CPI(M) |
| Alliance | LDF |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Nemom State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. Sivankutty of CPI(M).
Local self governed segments
[edit]Nemom is composed of wards 37-39, 48-58 and 61-68 of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation after the delimitation of the constituency in 2011:[2]
Members of Legislative Assembly
[edit]The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Nemom Niyamasabha Constituency during the period of various assemblies:[3]
| Election | Name | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | M. Sadasivan | Communist Party of India | |
| 1960 | P. Viswambharan | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1967 | M. Sadasivan | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1970 | G. Kuttapan | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1977 | S. Varadarajan Nair | Indian National Congress | |
| 1980 | E. Ramesan Nair | ||
| 1982 | K. Karunakaran | ||
| 1987 | V. J. Thankappan | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | P. Bhaskaran Venganoor | ||
| 2001 | N. Sakthan | Indian National Congress | |
| 2006 | |||
| Major boundary changes | |||
| 2011 | V. Sivankutty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 2016 | O. Rajagopal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2021 | V. Sivankutty | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
Election results
[edit]Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
2021
[edit]There were 2,04,240 registered voters in Nemom Constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | V. Sivankutty | 55,837 | 38.24 |  3.15
| |
| BJP | Kummanam Rajasekharan | 51,888 | 35.54 | 11.92
| |
| INC | K. Muraleedharan | 36,524 | 25.10 |  15.40
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 756 | 0.53 | 0.09
| |
| Majority | 3,949 | 2.76 | 3.31
| ||
| Turnout | 1,42,578 | 69.81 | 4.43
| ||
| CPI(M) gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
Niyamasabha Election 2016
[edit]There were 1,92,459 registered voters in Nemom Constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | O. Rajagopal | 67,813 | 47.46 | 9.97
| |
| CPI(M) | V. Sivankutty | 59,142 | 41.39 | 1.60
| |
| JD(U) | V. Surendran Pillai[5] | 13,860 | 9.70 | 7.68
| |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 884 | 0.62 | N/A | |
| Majority | 8,671 | 6.07 | 0.57
| ||
| Turnout | 1,42,882 | 74.24 | 6.72
| ||
| BJP gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 4.47
|
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Niyamasabha election 2011
[edit]First election after the Major delimitation of constituency. Different from the previous Nemom Constituency. Presently, it includes the parts of Previous Thiruvananthapuram East & Nemom Constitutencies.There were 1,72,493 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | V. Sivankutty | 50,076 | 42.99 | 1.20
| |
| BJP | O. Rajagopal | 43,661 | 37.49 | 31.90
| |
| SJ(D) | Charupara Ravi | 20,248 | 17.38 | 33.36
| |
| Majority | 6,415 | 5.50 | 3.46
| ||
| Turnout | 1,16,474 | 67.52 | 0.65
| ||
| CPI(M) win (new seat) | |||||
Niyamasabha election 2006
[edit]There were 1,79,417 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | N. Sakthan | 60,884 | 50.74 | ||
| CPI(M) | Venganoor P Bhaskaran | 50,135 | 41.79 | ||
| BJP | Malayinkeezhu Radhakrishnan | 6,705 | 5.59 | ||
| Majority | 10,749 | 8.96 | |||
| Turnout | 1,19,982 | 66.87 | |||
| INC hold | Swing | ||||
See also
[edit]- Nemom
- Thiruvananthapuram district
- List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
References
[edit]- ^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.
- ^ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
- ^ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Nemom". www.mapsofindia.com.
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
- ^ The SJ(D) party merged with the JD(U) in 2015
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2006, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.